1. To begin with, a PACE resolution focusing on the issue of Russia-occupied Crimea and the rights of Crimean Tatars is significant already: while there are two platforms for talks on occupied Donbas — the Normandy Format and the...
Following Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) declared that it would suspend the Russian delegation’s voting rights. PACE announced that...
On 5 February, the Council of Europe announced that it was finally ready to punish the worst offenders. The Committee of Ministers of the CoE, the governing body of the organization comprising the ambassadors of its 47 Member States,...
What the confirmation of Russia’s voting right means Yelyzaveta Yasko, head of the Ukrainian Delegation to PACE, names three main reasons, in addition to Russia’s financial contribution to PACE, that explain why the majority...
The capitulation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to the Russian Federation has taken place and, unfortunately, “with the active support of many Russian human rights activists, many but happily not all, Yan...
In November 2018, Russia attacked three Ukrainian warships heading to their port in the Azov Sea and took 24 sailors as POWs. The UN Maritime Tribunal ruled Russia must release them, and the deadline for the release expired on 25 June....
The decision by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to readmit the Russian delegation to PACE without any preconditions is a serious, I would say even a historic, defeat for the West, especially since Russia...
The Russian delegation’s return to PACE without fulfilling the obligations imposed by the resolutions of this organization, as well as the restoration of all the powers of the delegation, will lead to a result opposite of what the...
Two days ago, the Council of Europe voted to ignore its own warnings about Russian aggression and human rights violations. Putin invaded Georgia and Ukraine, illegally annexed Crimea, and has spent 20 years destroying democracy in Russia....
Today, everything’s happening in broad daylight… but, it’s still a story of gross corruption. Indeed, a more dangerous form of corruption. Corruption as an integral part of our institutions. In 2014, the Parliamentary...
In 2014, after the first Russian invasion of Ukrainian territory in the Donbas, soldiers who had lost limbs in battle were seen for the first time in public as they returned home. Since the full-on invasion by Russia in February 2022, the...
